Beschreibung:

Cook (James). A New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World, Undertaken and Performed by Royal Authority. Containing a New, Authentic, Entertaining, Instructive, Full, and Complete Historical Account of Captain Cook's First, Second, Third and Last Voyages, undertaken by Order of his present Majesty, for making New Discoveries in Geography, Navigation, Astronomy, &c. in the Southern and Northern Hemispheres &c. &c. &c. ... The Whole of these Voyages of Capt. James Cook &c. being newly written by the Editors from the Authentic Journals... and now publishing under the immediate Direction of George William Anderson London: Alex Hogg, [1784?], 148 engraved plates, plans & maps only, title and initial leaves detached and torn with some loss, few other leaves & plates of text torn, frayed and some detached, text incomplete at rear (lacking all after 7Z1 (page 642), disbound, folio (Qty: 1) Sold with all faults, not subject to return.